This Monday the lovely Dollymixers share with us...
Have you ever read a book that changed your life?
Glenda Young:
No, but Erin Pizzey's The Watershed had a profound effect.
Katherine Hannaford:
The book that changed my life would be Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel, which I read when I was 16, and didn't realise other young women could be feeling the same as me.
Katie Lee:
I had to study L'Etranger for my French A-Level. That certainly put things in perspective.
Cate Sevilla:
The Catcher in the Rye, Female Chauvinist Pigs, and Mind over Mood all helped change my life in different ways.
Alex Roumbas:
Many. But A Prayer for Owen Meany opened my eyes to modern American literature in a way that nothing since Fitzgerald had really managed.
Keris Stainton:
Finding Your Own North Star by Martha Beck. I read it on a road trip in America and vowed that everything would be different when I got home. It was (I was utterly skint) so it took me another 3 or 4 years, but eventually I quit my job and started writing for a living, still using the book as a "map".
Laura Street:
The Ossie Clark diaries was pretty amazing, maybe saying that it changed my life is a little OTT.
Charlotte Howells:
Erm no, and I've read a lot of books. I've read lots that I wish I had written, though.
Abi Silvester:
It's not literary, but Rose Elliot's Kitchen Pharmacy changed the way I eat. It just has lots of good tasty recipes, and teaches how to eat yourself out of sickness. Chomp!
Kimberly Foster:
Linda Goodman's Sun Signs had a pretty profound affect during my teen years but was never life-changing.
